Chi-Chi Undie is a Senior Associate and Technical Director within the Population Council’s International Programs Division, and the Regional Representative of the organization’s office in Kenya. Her research focuses primarily on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) against women and children, as well as on girls’ education. For over a decade, she directed the ‘Africa Regional SGBV Network’—a multi-country, multi-partner SGBV response, research, and research uptake initiative in the East, Horn, Great Lakes, and Southern regions of Africa. Her research and evidence-informed advocacy efforts have influenced policy and practice in health, police/legal, child protection, and education sectors in the region.

She is the inaugural Board Chair of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) and a Together for Girls board member. An International Advisory Board member of the What Works to Prevent Violence – Impact at Scale program, she most recently directed two five-year, regional, FCDO-funded research consortia in Africa – one centered on sexual and reproductive health and rights in refugee settings, and the other on female genital mutilation/cutting. A Co-Chair of the Center for Humanitarian Health-Lancet Commission on Health, Conflict and Forced Displacement, she holds an interdisciplinary doctoral degree in Language, Literacy, and Culture.